Welcome to Blackpast

Welcome to BlackPast

This 7,281 page reference center is dedicated to providing information to the general public on African American history and the history of more than one billion people of African ancestry around the world.  We invite you to explore and use all the resources of BlackPast.

Explore African American History

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Rochester Rebellion (July 1964)
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Lovett Fort-Whiteman (1889-1939)
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William Herbert Gray III (1941-2013)
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Cornell William Brooks (1961- )

Explore Global African History

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Jazz in Occupied China: Black Jazzmen at the Japanese Prison Camp in Weihsien, China during World War II
Beirut Street in Asmara, Eritrea
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Asmara, Eritrea (ca. 1000- )
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First Ivorian Civil War (2002-2007)
Alfred-Amédée Dodds
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Alfred-Amédée Dodds (1842-1922)

Perspectives in African American and Global African History

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Russia’s Black Entertainment Empresario: The Remarkable Saga of Fyodor Fyodorovich Tomas (Frederick Bruce Thomas)
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A Brief History of the San Diego NAACP, 1917-2007
New York Times Article on the Lynching of George Smith, Obion County, April 1931
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Eyewitness to Terror: The Lynching of a Black Man in Obion County, Tennessee in 1931
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Challenging Caste and Race: The Campaign for Integrated Higher Education in the Reconstruction Era

Special Features & Resources

101 African American Firsts
Genealogy Resources
Major African American Office Holders since 1641
STEM Innovators

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